Everyone's favorite children's librarian, Mychal Threets, is having a Puppet Story Time and YOU'RE invited! Mr. Mychal will read to you, then your kids will get to make their own paper puppet!
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Mychal Threets, best known as Mychal the Librarian, host of Reading Rainbow, writer of books, advocate for mental health, and most excellent human is joining the Puppetry Program at Gen Con to give you and your little ones a GREAT start to your Saturday! Kids will get to make a puppet with their grown-up. Skills required for this one are sitting, listening, clapping, laughing, coloring, having patience, and loving your neighbor. **Please note that ALL attendees, big and little, will need a ticket so we can ensure everyone is able to fit inside!**
Come one, come all to the first-ever Gen Con Puppet Costume Contest! Come see puppets wearing their favorite cosplay! Enter your own puppet into the mix and find out who will take home the prizes!
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Enter silly contests & win silly prizes! Grab your puppet, slap a costume on it (with care, integrity, and attention to detail), and be prepared to get judged by both celebrity and non-celebrity judges judging your every move. The judges' judginess is gonna judge up your judgee somethin' fierce! So fiercely it could win you a prize! Or just come to cheer on the silliness and see what these craftspeople have come up with. Is your alligator puppet dressing up as a carrot? Is your rabbit cosplaying as Jessica Rabbit (who is not actually a rabbit)? Are your finger puppets dressing up like actual fingers!?!?!!? Whatever it is, we want to see your puppets in their finest costumes! The entry form is emailed to everyone who gets a ticket, just in case you need to make a very wise last-minute decision to enter.
Come connect with puppeteers from your area and around the country. Plus you can bring an unwanted puppet-themed item for the unwanted-puppet-stuff giveaway!
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We can't wait to reunite with our puppetry fam & meet new people at this year's puppeteer social! This is a time for human puppeteers & those interested in the art of puppetry to socialize, talk shop, & connect. Feel free to bring any current work you want to talk about & we'll do our ever popular, unwanted-puppet-stuff giveaway!
Come make a paper puppet with the Puppetry Program professionals & then terrorize your friends with it! It's all free & you'll get to hear all about what we're doing for the weekend!
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Project is aimed at 10+, but kids ages 6+ can achieve it with the help of a grownup and a full tummy. Skills required: coloring, detailed cutting of paper on a curve, using tape, manipulating paper with two hands, using a stapler, following verbal and visual instructions, & using glue. And all you have to do is listen to what we have to offer like our own puppetry time share experience!
Calling all members of the Muppet Generation! Test your knowledge of Sesame Street, The Muppets, Fraggles, all things Puppets, Henson, and beyond in this super fun hour of silliness and mayhem!
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There will be prizes for first, second and third place winners!